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  • Entertainment

Latest Episode of The Playground Podcast: Tariffs, Hong Kong, Entertainment & More

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 6, 2019

Click here to listen to Chris and Richard talk about the latest happenings around the…

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  • playground

Finding the Virtue in Unsafe Playgrounds

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 20, 2019

"Children are better at figuring out how to have fun than many adults who build…

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  • Education

Less Playtime Means More Trouble

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 24, 2018

"Without free, big outdoor movement play, children "…are more likely to be clumsy, have difficulty…

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  • Economics

Free Play and the Future of Work

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 1, 2017

There is no better way for a child to learn the social and emotional skills…

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Playgrounds; When Is Safe Too Safe?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 15, 2017

Playgrounds teach us to assess risk and that is something we benefit from for a…

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  • Outdoor play

The End of the See Saw?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 15, 2016

Seesaws, Teeter Totters or whatever you call them are disappearing from parks all across the…

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  • Breaktime @ GTN

Victorian Children at Play

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 16, 2016

So many of the pictures we see of Victorian children show them in static positions.…

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  • Games

Playground Rhymes; An Endangered Species?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 25, 2015

Cinderella, dressed in yellawent upstairs to kiss her fellamade a mistake, kissed a snakehow many…

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  • Breaktime @ GTN

The Waterfall Swing; Swings Get Swingier

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 10, 2015

I used to ask audiences this question:  "How do you make a swing swingier?"  These…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Darell Hammond of KaBOOM! 2014 Global Toy News Person of the Year

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 14, 2015

This year’s Global Toy News Person of the Year is Darell Hammond, founder and CEO…

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  • Events

“Two Days of Play”; One Reporter’s Experience at the World Congress of Play

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 16, 2014

Sasha Bailyn – Editor Entertainment Designer magazine Sasha Bailyn is a creative consultant and the…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

A New Community of Play; lessons from The World Congress of Play

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 17, 2013

There was a moment during the World Congress of Play when I realized that in…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

The Play Industry; Who’s In and Who’s Out?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 6, 2013

I recently wrote a piece, “The Toy Industry Is Dead,” that announced:  "The Toy Industry…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

A toy inventor of the future?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 2, 2012

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“All Play”; A New Linked In Group

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 26, 2012

I have started a new group on Linked In called “All Play.”  Its purpose is…

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